Were there any rules at a school you attended that you thought were ridiculous?

[Lemon Zing]

Don't say, "Me and my group". The teachers didn't like that. I recall all of the class got berated for the me, me, movement. LOL. Triple M, indeed.

 

[aspieoutlaw89]

if there was no homework done,we would be sent to detention.i ended up knowing there was none.

 

[Primrose]

Yes, there was a rule about how many absent days you could have, so my parents had to insist on me going to school, even when I was extremely stressed.

 

[Judge]

In grade school in Virginia, wearing jeans was forbidden.

 

[Dadamen]

Rules are not too strict. Although all teachers think their subject is the most important and that's a problem for me.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

When I went to a private Christian school, Harry Potter wasn’t allowed because it promoted witchcraft. And I wasn’t allowed to show my class Disney’s Mulan because of the very short scene about praying to the ancestors yet a girl in my class was allowed to show us Anastasia which is about an undead sorcerer actively trying to kill a young woman. Which is ridiculous because how on earth is Anastasia considered to be appropriate given what happens in it but Mulan isn’t? They also had a science fair which the rules were rather odd as you needed to quote the Bible as part of the project which means people creating potato lights will have a difficult time doing the report. Trying to find Bible quotes for an experiment with laundry soap is even worse as there is very little mentioning of soap in the Bible. A lot of washing and cleaning but not soap.

 

[Jordy]

Having to show up everyday, regardless how far ahead you where. During math and physics I was always playing a game on my calculator or staring out the window, all those hours sitting there where wasted. Students that excel in certain subjects shouldn't have to attend all lectures.

I didn't actually show up a lot of days though, that was how I survived being undiagnosed and having no support. I still graduated with top grades however.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Here’s another odd thing that the private Christian school I attended for two years did. They made us go to school on Veterans Day which might have been acceptable if we weren’t literally the only school in the area to do this. I had to ride buses that took students to a Catholic school and switch buses and on Veterans Day, no school bus was available because they were based out of the public school districts. So we all had to have our parents drop us off at school and then pick us up afterwards. This never made sense to me about why we had to do this if literally every other school was closed.

 

[Nitro]

In primary school, we were forbidden to wear anything but hard soled shoes.
On days we had gym class which was once a week, some teachers would let you keep you "gym shoes" on the rest of the day.

George C's five siblings were all boys.
Mr. C was a practical man and decided to shoe them all in oxford lace up work boots because "dress shoes" weren't very durable.
The three C brothers I went to school with all got sent to see the head teacher on their first day back because they weren't wearing the "proper" type of shoes.
Mr. C had to close his butcher shop because the principle who resided at another campus called him to have a face to face meeting with him, the head teacher and his boys.

The walls in the school were so paper thin, you could probably hear a mouse fart thru them.
I remember Mr. C telling the both of them with a very raised that because he had six boys and they tore those dress shoes up too fast that he put them in work boots to save some money and if they wanted to buy all the (insert choice profanity) dress shoes they required he would be more than willing to (insert choice profanity) let them


The C boys never wore anything but oxfords from that day on

 

[Suzette]

Our highschool allowed a church youth group to post the ten commandments but no one was allowed to post posters, scedules or notices for any off campus group or club. Not even that church youth group.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

My high school had this rule that makes sense that we weren’t supposed to wear anything that could become a distraction in class yet this one theater kid wore this huge black cape everyday to school and when I say huge I mean it would fly back as he moved and was like one of those villain capes you saw in old movies and tv shows. No one stopped him because he was expressing himself but whenever I tried to express myself whether it was showing my interest in Pokémon or even trying to be myself, I was told that I was wrong. My high school seemed to have double standards about rules that they let some kids get away with breaking rules. It was pretty messed up that I was being told by the principal and teachers that it was my fault for getting bullied because I didn’t act like everyone else yet they kept telling us not to go with the crowd and listen to peer pressure just to fit in and for us to be ourselves. Well which one do you want me to do? Do everything that everyone else is doing even if it’s wrong because then I will fit in and won’t get bullied according to what you think is going on or do I not follow the crowd and be an individual which you told me was wrong to do?

 

[Nick12]

i dont rember i was a verry verry good students in all my school that i went to